Harvard tops Chinese university rankings

Harvard topped a Chinese ranking of world universities published Friday for the eighth year running -- a list dominated by US institutions and sharply criticised in Europe.The University of California at Berkeley was second, followed by Stanford, according to the list of 500 institutions compiled by Jiaotong University's Centre for World-Class Universities in Shanghai, available at www.arwu.org.

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Harvard topped a Chinese ranking of world universities published Friday for the eighth year running -- a list dominated by US institutions and sharply criticised in Europe.The University of California at Berkeley was second, followed by Stanford, according to the list of 500 institutions compiled by Jiaotong University's Centre for World-Class Universities in Shanghai, available at www.arwu.org.

Harvard topped a ranking of world universities published Friday by a Shanghai college for the eighth year running -- a list dominated by US institutions and sharply criticised in Europe.The University of California at Berkeley was second, followed by Stanford, according to the list of 500 schools compiled by Jiaotong University's Centre for World-Class Universities, available at www.arwu.org.

Harvard topped a ranking of world universities published Friday by a Shanghai college for the eighth year running -- a list dominated by US institutions and sharply criticised in Europe.The University of California at Berkeley was second, followed by Stanford, according to the list of 500 schools compiled by Jiaotong University's Centre for World-Class Universities, available at www.arwu.org.

QS recently released a new ranking of the top universities for 30 different academic subjects and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the list was dominated by two prestigious Boston-based schools — Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

US News & World Report released its "Best Global Universities Ranking" on Tuesday, naming Harvard University the best school in the world — somewhat of a surprise, considering that Harvard ranked second on the publication's annual list of top American universities.